Plumbing...

As always, it has been quite a while...

But an update or some record of this adventure that is now my life...as I vowed...will be important.

Since July, we have moved to a new apartment...had major kilombos (argie word for mess/disaster) with the apartment itself. No CO poisoning, but broken plumbing, no cable/internet for a month, getting cable/internet 1 day...and on that same day, Cooper chewing through the cable and cutting us away from our cable tv bliss!

The plumbing situation is as follows: in the bathroom there are two faucet thingers. one controls the water to the toilet and the other, the water to the sink and shower. In a normal situation, those faucets could always be on/open. But in our situation, the toilet one causes the sink to dribble water constantly. And the other faucet, when on makes the sink run full force and you cant control the sink by the little handles on the actual sink...they are un-turnable for God knows what reason.

So...if you are following this, in order to turn the shower on, the "sink/shower" faucet needs to be open, which means water runs full force automatically in the sink. Therefore, when you turn on the shower, you have to go quick, because the water will be running in the sink simultaneously...and we have what is called a termotanque which is kind of like a ghetto hot water heater...when it empties (after 1-2 showers) there is no more hot water.

You might ask, "Liz, if you had such a major plumbing problem when you moved in on the 1st of August, why didn't you call your landlord and ask her to send someone over to fix it ASAP"....OH well...one would think that is how this would be resolved, but no..no...we are in Argentina. Nothing is that simple. I could try to explain the process of having to go through the dumbass real estate agency for any problem with the apartment and not being able to contact the owner directly...ever....but that would be silly and you would likely not understand, because it makes no sense.

When we did get a plumber to come..he came once, and didn’t leave this stupid paper that says how much the work would cost (which the real estate agency needs to present to the owner, get it approved, and so on)...he disappeared after and we called him for weeks. Turns out his sister was kidnapped, raped and murdered and that’s why he wasn't working. It's actually just terribleeeee and awfulll...and like WTF?!?!?!?!

AND we still have broken plumbing.

One other plumber came, gave us a new paper (presupuesto) and then the owner didn't approve it. Shocking.

Today, yet another plumber came and he submitted this new presupuesto to the real estate agency. Now we wait. I am not going to hold my breath.

Anyways, enough about plumbing...aside from that, I am continuing to do rugby..practice 2x / week, games every other weekend or so. It's nice to keep playing, but I was sad to miss homecoming a few weeks back. It looked like so much fun and I miss all the girls so much.

Mati and I have our tickets booked for December! We are both uncontrollably excited about the trip...When people asking me what I am going to do in the USA, I start listing off foods that I plan to eat!!! gah. such a fatty, but I can't wait!

Things are getting pretty dicey here with Cristina's impending dictatorship, 40% inflation, and a whole slew of other problems...but it's still my beloved Argentina...I still love my medialunas, ferias on weekends, the language, the wine, the steak, mate, plazas, the music...there are still things here that are great, amongst all the crazyness!

I will write an update when the plumbing is fixed. Hopefully it will be before 2013!